Speaking about his release, Ellsworth fears that he may have become too comfortable during his last couple months there, arguing creative ideas and thing of that nature. He informs that his last couple of days in the company seemed perfectly normal to him. There was nothing out of the ordinary backstage, and McMahon even praised him and Becky Lynch after their inter-gender match on Smackdown Live.
He went home for his days off and suddenly received a call out of the blue from Mark Carrano. Caranno told him the bad news, saying the company felt as if Ellsworth’s character had run it’s course. Ellsworth says he started spitting out creative ideas to Caranno, pointing out that there was still so much more to do with Carmella’s Money in the Bank briefcase. He also proposed a transition to 205 Live, but nothing worked.
Jericho doesn’t think Ellsworth should take his release personally. He thinks that Ellsworth did a great job and that’s what made his run last as long as it did. He doubts that Ellsworth did anything to make McMahon want to release him; sometimes McMahon just feels like he got what he needed out of certain characters and then he moves on.
